This Great Contrivance: The First Hundred Years of the Telephone in Rochester

124 pp. A history of the telephone in Rochester, NY. CONTENTS: 1. "My God, It Talks!"; 2. The Two-Telephone Era; 3. The Eastman Connection; 4. The Boom Years; 5. Hard Times; 6. War and Post-War; 7. Catching Up; 8. The Biggest Decade; 9. Total Communication; 10. The Future is Now; Epilogue: The Color of the Times; Directors of the Rochester Telephone Corporation 1921-1979; Acknowledgments; Index.